Extensions of the Girl

She was eminently qualified in numbers Held fast to the beliefs in physical objects Felt every molecule down to her mortal soul Religion guided Sue through water and soil Down in the mud of love Prayer lined up on the side of God A tool most useful in the invisible realm If not She was locked in tangibles Sherlocked away to wait for Easter Buried under a stone most uncomfortable Undetected To be deduced, from what is and what is not Thereby order could be restored on Sunday Drilled down to the atomic level of abomination Established first by logic in the seventeenth century Light won't pass through the ways of reason Being solid as it stands Where souls split into the Adam unnatural at Evening All men are created equal to their mortal core The Iliad and Odyssey are read and dead In another language long and gone Sue knows Greek as a 5 letter word Greek know Sue more than you know Trojans were of another kind of clan Spoke Luwian at length Cuneiform or hieroglyphic characters carved Souls starved for more attention than misunderstanding Stood out in their own reflection Crawled home in a holy hole for protection Flashlights are not prescribed for reading Homer We recommend Sue's interpretation of the past Objects in Archeological pockets are counted Sins glow in the dark inspected Calculated to the numerical physicality of being Extolled by Sue who knows such things Gold is found without tools to grasp the meaning Souls unearthed remain with words unspoken English is not an ancient tongue Extensions take the dig Can only go so far Sue knows who you are Before it starts